When the weather gets cold - Out comes the soup
This was my first experimentation with making my own Pho. I see it everywhere and my son just loves it. SO ... I tried to make my own and let me tell you, I think I did a fine job of it !! Crunchy Vegetables and melt in the mouth meat.
The other soup that we have come up with is Asian Noodle Soup with Chicken Meatballs. Very filling and very yummy. Another winner.
Of course there is our Minestrone that is - to me - the best soup out there. Full of flavour and WW Friendly!
Beef & Noodle Soup (Pho Bo)

Nothing nicer than a fresh crunchy veggie soup with melt in the mouth Beef!
- Thermomix
- Large Bowl or ThermoServer
- 3 centimetres ginger (2 tsp)
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 onion - halved
- 3 star anise
- 1 cinnamon quill
- 15 gms raw sugar
- 40 gms fish sauce
- 60 gms Beef Stock Concentrate
- 1500 gms Water
- 100 gms Rice Vermicelli
- 400 gms beef eye fillet
- 1/2 bunch mint - fresh
- 1 Can Water Chestnuts - sliced
- Snow/Sugar Peas
- 1 long red chillies - thinly sliced
- 100 gms bean sprouts
- Place ginger and garlic cloves into TM bowl
Chop 3 SECONDS | SPEED 7
- Add onion - halved
Chop for 2 SECONDS | SPEED 5.5
- Add star anise, cinnamon, sugar, fish sauce, beef stock
- Add Water to ingredients in TM bowl
Cook 30 MINS | VAROMA | REVERSE | SPEED 2.5
- As broth is cooking, place noodles in Thermoserver and cover with boiling water.
- As you wait for the noodles to soften you can take the opportunity to prepare beef, chilli and herbs.
- Drain noodles and place beef strips on top of noodles in Thermoserver.

- Set into soup bowl Water Chestnuts, Snow/Sugar Peas and whatever other vegetables you may want (Bok Choy, Carrots, Capsicum)

- Pour broth into Thermoserver (which will gently cook the meat) and use the simmering basket to strain solids (star anise, cinnamon).
- Serve up individual bowls then top with the bean sprouts and garnish with chilli and fresh herbs according to your tastes.

Tip: Originally I put 200g Rice Vermicelli but I have changed to 100g as I use a lot of vegetables




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